The Inevitable

Stories of Life, Choice and the Right to Die

The Inevitable
Katie Engelhart
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 352pg
6 Jan 2022 UK
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9781786495662
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' Powerful and moving. Engelhart recounts the stories of those she meets with humanity and grace. ' - Louis Theroux Meet Adam. He' s twenty-seven years old, articulate and attractive. He also wants to die. Should he be helped? And by whom? In The Inevitable, award-winning journalist Katie Engelhart explores one of our most abiding taboos: assisted dying. From Avril, the 80-year-old British woman illegally importing pentobarbital, to the Australian doctor dispensing suicide manuals online, Engelhart travels the world to hear the stories of those on the quest for a ' good death' . At once intensely troubling and profoundly moving, The Inevitable interrogates our most uncomfortable moral questions. Should a young woman facing imminent paralysis be allowed to end her life with a doctor' s help? Should we be free to die painlessly before dementia takes our mind? Or to choose death over old age? A deeply reported portrait of everyday people struggling to make impossible decisions, The Inevitable sheds crucial light on what it means to flourish, live and die.
' There' s plenty of compassion, plenty of nuance and plenty of complex thought. Engelhart is a skilled storyteller. . . Her brilliant book should be prescribed to all those who thinkthey have a clear view [on the right to die]. ' - Sunday Times ' Powerful and moving. Engelhart recounts the stories of those she meets with humanity and grace. ' - Louis Theroux, bestselling author of Gotta Get Theroux This ' Deeply researched and beautifully reported. . . [Engelhart] writes compassionately of her subjects' struggles. ' - The Economist ' A brilliantly sensitive and deeply moving account of assisted dying. ' - Stephen Westaby, Sunday Times bestselling author of Fragile Lives
Katie Engelhart is a reporter and documentary film producer from Toronto and based in New York City. She is also a National Fellow at New America. Katie has worked as a correspondent for VICE News, based in London, and NBC News in New York. Her writing has appeared far and wide. Formerly, she was a graduate student of history and philosophy at Oxford University. This is her first book.
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ISBN-13: 9781786495662
Published: 6 Jan 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Atlantic Books
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 352

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